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Richard Luscombe in Miami

US couple who bid for pig at auction to rescue it find they were buying its meat

Pig in farm, close-up
The pig, named Bella B Swine (not pictured), was killed and processed into 186lbs of pork. Photograph: Hans Neleman/Getty Images

A Florida couple who won a pig at a state fair auction, intending to save it from the slaughterhouse, discovered the animal would be killed anyway and they had spent $4,700 on its meat.

Meg and Eric Weinberger, who run the Rescue Life sanctuary in Palm Beach Gardens, insist officials from the South Florida Fair gave no notification that they were bidding in a “terminal” auction of livestock raised solely for processing.

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